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Midwest Air Transport Travelair Biplane

Date: 10 25 1930
Description: Pilot O.G. Corben preparing to take off with photographer Aldro Wasley and another passenger on their way to the Wisconsin-Purdue football game in Lafayett...
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Parkway Theatre

Date: 09 18 1931
Description: Exterior view of Parkway Theater (formerly Fuller Opera House). 6-10 W. Mifflin Street. McVicar's automobile is parked in front with a sign on the tire cov...
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Man in Strand Jacket

Date: 02 20 1931
Description: Charles Loewenberg, manager of the Strand Theatre, and Aldro Wasley, photographer, wearing a Strand jacket and jodhpurs, standing on E. Mifflin Street.
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Paint Test Panels

Date: 01 09 1927
Description: Paint test panels near Middleton, with shadow of photographer and camera.
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Wisconsin vs. Ohio State Football Game

Date: 10 13 1951
Description: Wisconsin's Hal Faverty leaping into the air to make a finger-tip catch in the end zone during the Badgers' lone touchdown against Ohio State. A group of p...
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Madison West-Kenosha Football Game

Date: 11 02 1950
Description: The Madison West High School running back picks up a first down in their football game against Kenosha at Breese Stevens Field. Kenosha players are Bob Gil...
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Man Photographing Man Plowing a Field

Date: 1923
Description: A photographer is taking a photograph of another man plowing a field with a tractor. The tractor is probably a Fordson and the implement dealer was probabl...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Champion

Date: 07 1951
Description: 1950 Madison, Wisconsin soap box derby champion Warren Slightam about to compete in an exhibition race at the 1951 Madison soap box derby on Gorham Street.
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Forest Middleton in Tenney Park

Date: 1910
Description: Forest Middleton sits with his camera beside him on a park bench near the lagoon in Tenney Park. An arched bridge is visible through the trees.
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Filming a Prescribed Prairie Burn

Date: 1953
Description: Disney film crew in UW-Madison Arboretum's Curtis Prairie filming a prescribed burn.
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Girl Scouts Play Day

Date: 05 15 1954
Description: Yvonne Egstad of Middleton takes a picture of two Sauk City fellow campers, Mary Jane Dickerson (left) and Anita Meyer. They were participating in the seve...
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University of Wisconsin Graduation

Date: 06 19 1954
Description: One of three negatives that make a panorama of University of Wisconsin graduates and families sitting in the stands at Camp Randall Stadium during graduati...
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Matthew Witt's Photography Studio

Date: 1913
Description: Hand-colored exterior of Matthew Witt's photography studio. He is standing at the door with his hand on the doorknob. Photographic prints are hanging in th...
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Filming The Vanishing Prairie

Date: 04 13 1953
Description: Disney film crew filming a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A camer...
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Filming The Vanishing Prairie

Date: 04 13 1953
Description: Disney film crew shooting a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A came...
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Annual Dahlia and Flower Show

Date: 08 31 1956
Description: Herman Haugen readies to take a photograph of one his dahlias at his home.
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Blackhawk Ski Club Ski Jump Tourney

Date: 01 26 1958
Description: Amatuer photographers and ski jumping spectators Irv Jacobsen and Forest Bakken attend the Blackhawk Ski Club's 11th annual jumping tournament. Both men ho...
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Paul Vanderbilt

Date: 07 1974
Description: Paul Vanderbilt sitting in a painted metal chair in George Talbot's (Vanderbilt's successor) backyard on Jenifer Street. He is wearing a plaid jacket, trou...
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Photographer's Picnic

Date: 1933
Description: Group portrait of men, women and children posing outdoors under the shade of trees next to a sign that reads "Photographers' Picnic."
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Photographer on Pier

Date: 08 1925
Description: A photographer is crouching on a wooden pier behind a small camera on a tripod to film C.B. (Chandler Burnell) Chapman, a realtor and good friend of Stanle...

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